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Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

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China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. Our decision to carry out our lithium project in Argentina is in line with the dynamic of strong market growth. Background.

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Argentina and Venezuela to cooperate in $2.2B 100,000 bpd extra-heavy oil joint venture in Orinoco Belt

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Argentina and Venezuela will form a joint venture targeting production of 100,000 barrels of extra-heavy oil per day in the Junin field area of the Orinoco Oil Belt. In the 1990s Venezuela established four strategic associations to exploit these resources, later converting them to mixed companies with majority PdVSA ownership.

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Conservation group opposing Thacker Pass lithium mine seeks endangered status for Kings River pyrg (snail)

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Lithium Americas is focused on advancing the Cauchari-Olaroz and Pastos Grandes projects in Argentina and the Thacker Pass project in Nevada. The Thacker Pass operation will include a co-located sulfuric acid plant that will convert molten sulfur into sulfuric acid. Earlier post.). Thacker Pass. Background.

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

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High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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Oversold Lithium could be about to rally

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The company’s Salar de Olaroz project in Argentina took seven years to hit its stride but still came up short of production targets. A good case in point is Brisbane-based Orocobre, which has become the poster child for just how challenging new brine mining can be. Link to article: [link].

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EU-Funded Project Targets Sustainable Production of Ethyl Levulinate from Biomass as Diesel Miscibile Biofuel

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The project will also use fast pyrolysis to convert the residue left over from biofuel production to bio-oil for subsequent upgrading to DMB. In addition to the Carbolea Research Group, the DIBANET consortium comprises partners from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Greece, Hungary and the UK. The DIBANET project has received €3.73

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Equipmake & Beulas partner with Go-Ahead London for in-service trials of double-decker e-bus; up to 300 miles with 543 kWh pack

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A Semikron SKAI inverter converts DC charge from the battery to AC charge to drive the HTM 3500 electric motor. The vehicle chassis has been specifically designed for the Equipmake ZED by Agrale in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a leading truck and bus chassis manufacturer established in 1962.

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